Bellingham, Washington

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Welcome to our website. My husband and I have always been animal lovers, and there was never a time growing up when I didn’t have at least a dog, cat, and pony or horse. Later, while in college I started training horses. When I came home from school I fell in love with the Arabians that family friends raised, and within a very short while was training horses to pay off my new buddy, a yearling Arabian gelding. He was my best friend for 24 years. During that time I acquired other Arabians, including a stallion that was also a close buddy, until days short of his 31st birthday. Unfortunately, due to our busy work schedule, the only means of working my horses was to get home from work, load them in the trailer and haul them to the arena about 5 miles away, work with them awhile, then return home and generally crash. After doing this for awhile my husband’s sister suggested show dogs…. Way easier, and just as rewarding, we all thought! Some friends had gotten into Golden Retrievers, and had quality show dogs. Several Canadian Champion Goldens and years later, when I was having back trouble, and having to lift them onto the grooming table and into the van was getting really hard on my body, my husband suggested something more “portable”, that didn’t require such heavy lifting, and big, heavy equipment. I started researching, and discovered Papillons. And the rest, as they say, is “history”…. While we do still have one Golden, several cats and a couple horses, after my husband, Papillons are now the true love of my life…